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2024-2025 SURF Fellow

Graduate Student, Stanford University

Qing-Xin Ji

2025 Ph.D.

Postdoc, ETH Zürich

Bohan Li

2025 Ph.D.

Susquehanna International Group

2024 Ph.D. 2025 Postdoctoral Scholar

Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

2024 Ph.D.

Photonics Experimentalist, Apple Inc.

LueWu

2023 Ph.D.

Engineer,
Apple Inc.

HemingStanford

2021 Ph.D. 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar

Assistant Professor, Westlake University

Boqiang Shen

2021 Ph.D. 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar

Senior Engineer, Nexus Photonics

Anna Shelton

2021 SURF-the-WAVE Fellow

Graduate Student, Harvard Marko Loncar group

Chengying Bao

2021 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

QFY-3

2019 Ph.D. 2020 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Peking University

Yu-Hung Lai

2019 Ph.D.

Senior Research Engineer, OEwaves Inc.

Myoung-Gyun Suh

Myoung-Gyun Suh

2017 Ph.D. 2019 Postdoctoral Scholar

Senior Scientist, NTT Research, Inc.

Yukun Lu

2018 Surf Fellow

Graduate Student, MIT Ketterle group

Xu Yi

2017 Ph.D. 2018 Postdocotral Researcher

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

KiyoulYang2022

2017 Ph.D. 2018 Postdocotral Researcher

Assistant Professor, Harvard

Xinbai Li

2018 Visiting PhD Student

Peking University

Dongyoon Oh

Dongyoon (James) Oh

2017 Ph.D.

Stealth

SeungHoon Lee

2017 Post Doctoral Scholar

Senior Hardware Engineer, Apple Inc.

XueyueZhang2023

2016 Surf Fellow

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Hansuek Lee

2015 Post Doctoral Scholar

Associate Professor, KAIST

Dr. Jiang Li

2013 Ph.D.

President and Cofounder, hQphotonics Inc.

Tong_Chen

2013 Ph.D.

Director, Head of Asia Pacific Digital Value Creation, KKR & Co. Inc.

Ivan Grudinin

2011 Post Doctoral Scholar

Director of Photonics Packaging, Ortel

Eric Ostby

2009 Ph.D.

Chief Product Officer, Aliro

Xiaoshun Jiang

2009 joint PhD program visiting student

Professor, Nanjing University

Tao Lu

2008 Post Doctoral Scholar

Associate Professor, University of Victoria

Mani Hossein-Zadeh

Mani Hossein-Zadeh

2008 Post Doctoral Scholar

Patent Scientist, Knobbe Martens

Tal Carmon

2007 Post Doctoral Scholar

Professor, Tel Aviv University

Andrea Armani

2006 Ph.D.

Ray Irani Chair of Engineering and Materials Science, Professor of Chem. Eng., Mat. Science, and EE, University of Southern California

Bumki Min

2006 Ph.D. 2007 Postdocotral Researcher

Professor, KAIST

Hossein Rokhsari

Hossein Rokhsari

2005 Ph.D.

Partner, Darcy Partners

Deniz Armani

2005 Ph.D.

Director of Engineering, SMP Engineering Inc

Yang_Lan

2005 Ph.D.

Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

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Tobias Kippenberg

2004 Ph.D. 2006 Postdoctoral Scholar

Full Professor of Physics, EPFL

Sean Spillane

2004 Ph.D.

Program Manager, Montana Photonics & Quantum Alliance

Mark Brongersma

Mark Brongersma

2001 Post Doctoral Scholar

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford

Ashish Bhardwaj

Ashish Bhardwaj

2001 Ph.D.

Principal Laser Architect - Lightmatter

ojp

2002 Post Doctoral Scholar

John G. Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, Caltech; Head of Quantum Hardware, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Per Olof Hedekvist

Per Olof Hedekvist

2000 Post Doctoral Scholar

Senior Scientist, Applied Metrology, RISE Research Institute of Sweden

Ming Cai

2001 Ph.D.

Principal Software and Systems Engineer, Abbott

RenatoCamata

1998 Ph.D.

Associate Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)

Roberto Paiella

Roberto Paiella

1998 Ph.D.

Professor, Boston University

Guido Hunziker

1998 Ph.D.

Vice-President of R&D, Glenair

Robert Lee

1997 Ph.D.

Research Director, Corning Research and Development Corporation

David Geraghty

1997 Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Arizona

Charles Tsai

1996 Ph.D.

Engineering Dev Director, Lumentum

Jianhui Zhou

1995 Ph.D.

CEO, HC Semitek Corporation

Namkyoo Park

1994 Ph.D.

Professor, Seoul National University

Jay Dawson

1993 Ph.D.
Deputy Program Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

Winston Saunders

Winston Saunders

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

Research Manager, Microsoft

Steve Sanders

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

Sr. Engineering Director, Technology Development, Quantinuum

John Lebens

1993 Post Doctoral Scholar

Co-founder, Lumisyn LLC

Peter Sercel

1992 Ph.D.

Founder, Peter Sercel Research, LLC

Michael Newkirk

Michael Newkirk

1991 Ph.D.

Technical Consultant, confidential

Michael Hoenk

1990 Ph.D.

Principal Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Labratory

Hal Zarem

1990 Ph.D.

Board member, adviser and consultant, HAZ Enterprises